The FBI released documents related to its investigation into Clinton’s private email server, which reveal a State Department official offered the FBI a “quid pro quo” to hide the full extent of Clinton’s mishandling of classified information.

A Quid proquo (“something for something” or “this for that” in Latin) means an exchange of goods or services, where one transfer is contingent upon the other.

That my friends is illegal as all hell.

Now Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is weighing in on this.

Katie Pavlich at Townhall reports that Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is weighing in on FBI documents released earlier this week showing State Department Undersecretary of Management Patrick Kennedy asking an agent to change the classification rating on at least one of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails in exchange for a “quid pro quo.”

Ashcroft explained that bribery or exchange of favors in this manner for public officials is illegal and shouldn’t be tolerated inside government institutions. He also pointed out that changing the classification level of a document under congressional subpoena is also illegal and likely an effort not only to defraud lawmakers, but the American people.

“To change the classification of a document which is under subpoena by the United States Congress is asking someone to do something which I believe is illegal in an effort to defraud the Congress by providing false information,” Ashcroft said.